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Definition of trilingual in English:

trilingual

adjective

1Speaking three languages fluently.

‘However, the care and attention to detail merely begins with the compound, and trilingual wedding coordinators are on hand to ensure that all is perfect up to the exchange of vows and to the festivities beyond.’

‘I was impressed to meet a trilingual nine-year-old on holiday in Austria and hoped his good example might rub off on my kids.’

‘This is a very confusing situation for a precocious trilingual five year old, but not such an unusual condition when seen in a pan-Canadian context.’

‘According to a survey done in 1860 at least one person in the sixteen families living in the village at that time was trilingual in Finnish, Saami, and Norwegian, although the first language of all the households was Saami.’

‘In fact, about a month later, they did find a tutor who was trilingual, commanding American Sign Language, English, and Spanish, who began giving classes in their homes.’

‘The trilingual Galluccio is clearly enjoying his entry into the ‘establishment’ and the respect he's finding as an artist on the French side.’

‘And most of the young were bilingual or trilingual (reading and/or speaking French and English as well as Arabic).’

‘As Chone Shmeruk, the great scholar of Jewish literature in Poland, has noted, the interwar culture of the Polish Jews was really trilingual.’

‘While Simon the cute, violin playing, trilingual young lad is pretty good, his two red-haired cousins are contrived and mostly painful.’

‘He grew up trilingual, in English, Mandarin Chinese and Malay.’

‘Among the minority, some of the higher clergy were now, to our knowledge, trilingual, and unlike those known to Brihtric, willing to speak in each language as appropriate.’

‘Being ill in the 1990s and trilingual, I soon met others worldwide who were facing similar concerns, especially in Latin America.’

‘Our vision of excellence means that our children must be bilingual - or trilingual, or maybe even multilingual in spoken languages and conversant in one or more cyber languages.’

‘‘Port is really the result of a historical accident,’ recounted Taylor's trilingual guide, Frédéric da Costa, during the tasting.’

‘I have been pretty lucky in that I have had good results working with professors at the university I work for and also my wife who is trilingual.’

‘Many first- and second-generation Mayan Americans are trilingual, and can communicate in Spanish, English, and a Mayan dialect.’

‘Some are even trilingual - in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua - in regions where the Incas predominate.’

‘They interact with Tigrinya speakers in their everyday life, and most Saho speakers are bilingual and trilingual in Saho and Tigrinya and/or Tigre.’

‘‘It's like sculpture,’ says the trilingual actress who has a Quebecoise mother and an Italian father.’

‘From the twelfth to the fourteenth century a well-educated Englishman was trilingual.’

1.1(of a text or an activity) written or conducted in three languages.

‘CNN have begun offering a trilingual entertainment service’

‘The trilingual texts allowed him to decipher their meaning.’

‘The menu is trilingual with Belgian at the top, French underneath and English on the last line.’

‘The books are trilingual (English, Dutch and French) in order to make them international market-friendly.’

‘Besides, trilingual translations fill up the booklet.’

‘Cummins, in particular, argued that Rossell and Baker's study actually proved the effectiveness of bilingual and trilingual education.’

‘The tests and evaluation procedures were adapted from those used in previous research of Canadian immersion programs and later the Luxembourg system of trilingual education.’